Ghanaians must have the right to smoke marijuana - Reggae musician

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Nana kwasi Baah-Nimako 10 years ago

Marijuana is harmful to the body, in my view the government maintain that sanction attached to it because it has done more harmful than good, people who smoke marijuana sometimes get mad at the end of it. Also, people used f ...
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Marijuana is harmful to the body, in my view the government maintain that sanction attached to it because it has done more harmful than good, people who smoke marijuana sometimes get mad at the end of it. Also, people used for different agenda's which also bad and how can Ghana move on, if there are a lot of 'marijuana smokers' so let us think about our children future first.
Kwame USA 10 years ago

That's why America is legalizing it.
If substance needs to be banned it should be alcohol.

That's why America is legalizing it.
If substance needs to be banned it should be alcohol.
kallot 10 years ago

When you don't try it you would not know. When you try to stand in for something you have not try but know what it can course is very not fair.If it is medicinal and can help one to eat very why do i fear i would go mad or wh ...
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When you don't try it you would not know. When you try to stand in for something you have not try but know what it can course is very not fair.If it is medicinal and can help one to eat very why do i fear i would go mad or what ever you can imagine
kallot 10 years ago

You see all the contributors are only insulting taking the mans look into consideration. Why not humanity decides to carry out and experiment on this issue. We in school that experiment is to keep one and alter the other for ...
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You see all the contributors are only insulting taking the mans look into consideration. Why not humanity decides to carry out and experiment on this issue. We in school that experiment is to keep one and alter the other for a while and write down your observation. People are ready to be used as a guinea big.We are ready to subject ourself for unraveling this mystry.
Malcolm Kyle 10 years ago

Study: Cannabis Use Not Predictive Of Lower IQ, Poorer Educational Performance

“… to test the relationships between cumulative cannabis use and IQ at the age of 15 and educational performance at the age of 16. After fu ...
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Study: Cannabis Use Not Predictive Of Lower IQ, Poorer Educational Performance

“… to test the relationships between cumulative cannabis use and IQ at the age of 15 and educational performance at the age of 16. After full adjustment, those who had used cannabis ?50 times did not differ from never-users on either IQ or educational performance. Adjusting for group differences in cigarette smoking dramatically attenuated the associations between cannabis use and both outcomes, and further analyses demonstrated robust associations between cigarette use and educational outcomes, even with cannabis users excluded. These findings suggest that adolescent cannabis use is not associated with IQ or educational performance once adjustment is made for potential confounds, in particular adolescent cigarette use.”

Source: C Mokrysz, et al. Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University College London. Published January 6, 2016 in Journal of Psychopharmacology.

Daily Marijuana Use Is Not Associated with Brain Morphometric Measures in Adolescents or Adults

"No statistically significant differences were found between daily users and nonusers on volume or shape in the regions of interest. Effect sizes suggest that the failure to find differences was not due to a lack of statistical power, but rather was due to the lack of even a modest effect. In sum, the results indicate that, when carefully controlling for alcohol use, gender, age, and other variables, there is no association between marijuana use and standard volumetric or shape measurements of subcortical structures."

The Journal of Neuroscience, 28 January 2015, 35(4): 1505-1512; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2946-14.2015?

Health concerns regarding marijuana tend to come from a self-fueling group of discredited scientists funded by the pharmaceutical, prison, tobacco, and alcohol industries. They push non-peer-reviewed papers, fraught with conjecture and confounding variables, while relying upon reports issued by others in their own group to further support their own grossly misleading research and clearly biased agendas.

The Duke University (New Zealand) study, the one which claimed that smoking marijuana in your teens leads to a long-term drop in IQ, has since been utterly rebuked by a new paper, published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that examined the research and found its methodology to be flawed.

"...existing research suggests an alternative confounding model based on time-varying effects of socioeconomic status on IQ. A simulation of the confounding model reproduces the reported associations from the [August 2012 study], suggesting that the causal effects estimated in Meier et al. are likely to be overestimates, and that the true effect could be zero".
—Ole Rogeberg.
Amina 10 years ago

We don't want to look like you

We don't want to look like you
Kwame 10 years ago

Shallow thinker, marijuana germinate well on in this country but fails in the white man's land so they intentionally enacted this law to keep their business by selling their label cigarette with all sort health harzard inscri ...
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Shallow thinker, marijuana germinate well on in this country but fails in the white man's land so they intentionally enacted this law to keep their business by selling their label cigarette with all sort health harzard inscription on it to turn to imports them by help our own managers not leaders that turns bad to the Best not as slave purpets sells their followers into slavery by enacting laws to put the people into bondage.
Saint 10 years ago

Even in most of Jamaica marijuana is illegal is a drug but since nobody know how to use it except blowing it the law must still stay the same

Even in most of Jamaica marijuana is illegal is a drug but since nobody know how to use it except blowing it the law must still stay the same
king Dada 10 years ago

big foooooooool

big foooooooool
Kwadjo 10 years ago

see that idiot. the cigarrete mpo see how we are messing about and no imagine ganger.

see that idiot. the cigarrete mpo see how we are messing about and no imagine ganger.
Kwame 10 years ago

You are calling urself idiot, ur mind no grow.

You are calling urself idiot, ur mind no grow.
Kwadjo 10 years ago

see that idiot. the cigarrete mpo see how we are messing about and now imagine how we will do with ganger.

see that idiot. the cigarrete mpo see how we are messing about and now imagine how we will do with ganger.
DI ASEM PA 10 years ago

Another crazy one. Have you checked yourself? Nothing different between you and a mad man.

Another crazy one. Have you checked yourself? Nothing different between you and a mad man.
kopy 10 years ago

Our end looks chaotic, glimmer and disastrous. Weeping inside. Opayin ni fie, oh!

Our end looks chaotic, glimmer and disastrous. Weeping inside. Opayin ni fie, oh!
Nana Akrika 10 years ago

this can course damage to your brain so why purple still engage their selves to

this can course damage to your brain so why purple still engage their selves to
sanjay - Abu Dhabi 10 years ago

SEE A WEE SMOKER, VERY UGLY & STUPID

SEE A WEE SMOKER, VERY UGLY & STUPID
Saint Ghfuo: FREE YOUR PSYCHE 10 years ago

...BUT WEED?

...BUT WEED?
ABINCHI 10 years ago

WHEN THE WORLD IS MOVING FORWARD AND PEOPLE ARE DEVELOPING THEMSELVES AND THEIR INTELLECT, YOU WANT TO DESTROY YOURSELF AND YOUR BRAINS RATHER. MAY GOD CHANGE YOUR EVIL THINKING. IF I WERE THE POLICE, I WOULD GO FOR THIS GUY ...
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WHEN THE WORLD IS MOVING FORWARD AND PEOPLE ARE DEVELOPING THEMSELVES AND THEIR INTELLECT, YOU WANT TO DESTROY YOURSELF AND YOUR BRAINS RATHER. MAY GOD CHANGE YOUR EVIL THINKING. IF I WERE THE POLICE, I WOULD GO FOR THIS GUY IMMEDIATELY AND CONDUCT A SEARCH ON HIM, BECAUSE I'M SURE HE COULD BE A MARIJUANA (WEE) SMOKER. HE IS A POTENTIAL PUBLIC ENEMY. MOST OF MY FRIENDS WHO STARTED SMOKING MARIJUANA IN THE YOUTHFUL AGES ARE EITHER MAD OR DEAD. IT APPEARS YOU DON'T HAVE ELDERS IN YOUR HOME. MAY THE LORD SAVE YOU FROM THE DEVIL .
KOW 10 years ago

silly unclean boy it is up to you to smoke and die you won't be missed don't make this a big issue for the population.

silly unclean boy it is up to you to smoke and die you won't be missed don't make this a big issue for the population.
Koacho 10 years ago

There is nothing like right in illegality. Look at him does he look different from those roaming the street. Wee or marijuana is illegal in Ghana period.This guy must be monitored and arrested.

There is nothing like right in illegality. Look at him does he look different from those roaming the street. Wee or marijuana is illegal in Ghana period.This guy must be monitored and arrested.
SHATA 10 years ago

LOOK AT THIS IDIOT.I JUST DNT NO WHY THE MEDIA SHOULD UNCOVER STUPID HEAD LINE LIKE THIS FOR PEOPLE TO READ.HOW CAN GHANA MOVE FORWARD IF WE VE PEOPLE OF THIS NATURE.WE WILL MAKE IT LEGAL FOR HE AND HIS FAMILY.ABOABA.

LOOK AT THIS IDIOT.I JUST DNT NO WHY THE MEDIA SHOULD UNCOVER STUPID HEAD LINE LIKE THIS FOR PEOPLE TO READ.HOW CAN GHANA MOVE FORWARD IF WE VE PEOPLE OF THIS NATURE.WE WILL MAKE IT LEGAL FOR HE AND HIS FAMILY.ABOABA.
Bozango 10 years ago

www.drugpolicy.org/blog/how-did-marijuana-become-illegal-first-place.

OH BONKU PEOPLE!!!

www.drugpolicy.org/blog/how-did-marijuana-become-illegal-first-place.

OH BONKU PEOPLE!!!
barima owusu akyem tenten agyekum 10 years ago

It's still a narcotic so it use can't be encouraged.

It's still a narcotic so it use can't be encouraged.
Malcolm Kyle 10 years ago

Kindly google: "Cannabis Reduces Infant Mortality" You'll find this:

“Cannabis” infants have a mortality rate almost half of what the “No drugs” infants have!

A total of 2,964 infants were drug-tested at birth t ...
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Kindly google: "Cannabis Reduces Infant Mortality" You'll find this:

“Cannabis” infants have a mortality rate almost half of what the “No drugs” infants have!

A total of 2,964 infants were drug-tested at birth to see if they were positive for drugs – cocaine, opiates and cannabis were studied and compared to drug free infants.
During the first two years of their lives, 44 babies from the original group died.

The death rates were :

“No drugs at birth” deaths … 15.7 deaths per 1000 live births

“Cocaine positive” deaths … 17.7 deaths per 1000 live births

“Opiate positive” deaths … 18.4 deaths per 1000 live births

“Cannabis positive” deaths … 8.9 deaths per 1000 live births

The “cannabis positive” infants rate of death is almost half of the “No drugs” infants death rate.

"When it comes to failure to thrive, cannabis may lend a significant improvement to the outcome."

Mothers who use cannabis during pregnancy also have healthier and smarter kids —kindly google that also!

"Melanie Dreher, who is the dean of nursing at Rush Medical Center in Chicago, did a study in Jamaica. It was actually published in the American Journal of Pediatrics in 1994, but now it’s re-circulating because of all the interest in the neuroprotective properties. Basically, she studied women during their entire pregnancy, and then studied the babies about a year after birth. And what she studied was a group of women who did smoke cannabis during pregnancy and those who didn’t. She expected to see a difference in the babies as far as birth weight and neuro tests, but there was no difference whatsoever. The differences that the researchers did notice, that are unexplained and kind of curious are that the babies of the women who had smoked cannabis — and we’re talking about daily use during their pregnancy — socialized more quickly, made eye contact more quickly and were easier to engage."
Malcolm Kyle 10 years ago

An ever-growing body of scientific research clearly demonstrates that Marijuana is less addictive than a cup of tea.

Dr. Jack E. Henningfield of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Dr. Neal L. Benowitz of the Universi ...
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An ever-growing body of scientific research clearly demonstrates that Marijuana is less addictive than a cup of tea.

Dr. Jack E. Henningfield of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Dr. Neal L. Benowitz of the University of California at San Francisco ranked six psychoactive substances on five criteria.

Withdrawal -- The severity of withdrawal symptoms produced by stopping the use of the drug.

Reinforcement -- The drug's tendency to induce users to take it again and again.

Tolerance -- The user's need to have ever-increasing doses to get the same effect.

Dependence -- The difficulty in quitting, or staying off the drug, the number of users who eventually become dependent

Intoxication -- The degree of intoxication produced by the drug in typical use.

The tables listed below show the rankings given for each of the drugs. Overall, their evaluations for the drugs are very consistent. It is notable that marijuana ranks below caffeine in most addictive criteria, while alcohol and tobacco are near the top of the scale in many areas.

The rating scale is from 1 to 6 --- 1 denotes the drug with the strongest addictive tendencies, while 6 denotes the drug with the least addictive tendencies.

HENNINGFIELD RATINGS

Withdrawal Reinforcement Tolerance Dependence Intoxication

Nicotine 3 4 2 1 5

Heroin 2 2 1 2 2

Cocaine 4 1 4 3 3

Alcohol 1 3 3 4 1

Caffeine 5 6 5 5 6

Marijuana 6 5 6 6 4

BENOWITZ RATINGS

Withdrawal Reinforcement Tolerance Dependence Intoxication

Nicotine 3 4 4 1 6

Heroin 2 2 2 2 2

Cocaine 3 1 1 3 3

Alcohol 1 3 4 4 1

Caffeine 4 5 3 5 5

Marijuana 5 6 5 6 4
Kwame 10 years ago

Bold steps High Spirit

Bold steps High Spirit
dada 10 years ago

hailing of nation dirty babylon dont like it fyah pon babylon

hailing of nation dirty babylon dont like it fyah pon babylon

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